Unions Decide Soon June 22,2011

Bob Englehart

War on the working man? Hey, don't forget it's the working man coughing up the money for the new high taxes across the board that will pay the state employees their salaries.

From what I can tell, the state employees don't have a lot of choices. Fair, or unfair, I hope all the unions involved endorse the governor's deal because if they don't, I'm sure he'll go through with his threat to lay off more than 7,000 state workers. That will only worsen the state's economy. That many people out of work will probably lead to more layoffs of state workers down the road starting a death spiral of more bad economy and more layoffs.

Of course, I'm not an economist. My checkbook will attest to that, but the bottom line (I can use jargon with the best of them) is we need the union's cooperation again. They'll still be far ahead of the game if they accept the guv's offer. If they don't, game over thousands.

Check out the great interviewJim Altman of FoxCT did with me. Go over to "Read more..." under my caricature, click on it and when the page comes up, scroll down the left side to a tour of my home studio and under that, the interview. Enjoy!